The Boggs - Forts

Flash forward. Flash back. Tune in New York, Germany, California, South Africa, the UK… Moving across genres and borders as easily as a dial moving up and down the AM band, The Boggs have spent the past six years defining, refining, building up, and breaking down their take on proto post folk garage punk folk punk blues and disco. Founded in 2001, principle member Jason Friedman has kept the band moving through a number of incarnations, with time off for the occasional side endeavour – a move to Berlin to focus on a series of large-scale drawings, for example, or directing a video for sometime tour-mates The Rapture.

Over two years in the making, FORTS follows on the unhurried heels of 2002's We Are The Boggs We Are and 2003's lost critics' darling Stitches. FORTS started in 2004 on Friedman's kitchen floor in Berlin where, using roughshod recording techniques, he laid down raw tracks. Working with drummer Christian Obermier over the next year and a half, Friedman added fresh layers to these tracks in a series of Berlin studios. The finishing touches to each song were added by calling on special guests who came in to perform specific duties. After finally mixing the stacks of tracks hauled back from Europe to New York's Gigantic Studios, FORTS will be released in February 2008 on Tangled Up! Recordings

1.    Forts
2.    Remember The Orphans
3.    Little Windows
4.    One Year On
5.    Arm In Arm
6.    Bookends
7.    After The Day
8.    The Passage
9.    So I So You
10.    Melanie In The White Coat
11.     If We Want (We Can)
12.    Poor Things
13.    Holiday
14.    After The Day (Heather’s version)

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